Seven decades of packaging — made in our own factory.
Arplast has done one thing since 1952: supply businesses with packaging they can rely on. We run our own manufacturing and our own warehouse, which means the bags you order are the bags we make — priced factory-direct, with no distributor standing in between.
How we got here
Longevity in packaging is earned one shipment at a time. Our history is a straight line: learn the material, learn the customer, and keep bringing more of the process in-house until quality and lead times are genuinely ours to control.
- 1952
The business begins
Arplast starts supplying companies with poly bags for their packaging needs — the beginning of a specialisation we have never left.
- 1989
Operations open in the United States
Arplast Poly opens its American doors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Complex, bringing decades of packaging experience to US manufacturers, labs, and retailers.
- 2010
We become the manufacturer
Arplast opens its own manufacturing plant overseas. From this point, the bags we sell are the bags we make — full control over material, gauge, and quality.
- Today
Millions of bags, ready to ship
From our New Jersey warehouse we stock hundreds of sizes across zip-top, open-end, specimen, deli, gift, and medical lines — with stock orders dispatched within 48 hours.
What we make
Three product families, one standard. Everything is stocked in our own warehouse, and anything we stock we can also produce to your specification.
Poly bags, made to standard
Reclosable zip-top and open-end bags in polyethylene and polypropylene, meeting FDA and USDA requirements for food and pharmaceutical packaging — in 2 mil, 4 mil, and custom gauges.
Browse poly bagsSpecimen transport packaging
Biohazard, STAT, and privacy-pouch specimen bags with document pockets, built around how laboratories and collection sites actually work. Stocked from 6×9″ to 15×18″.
Browse specimen bagsDisposable medical supplies
A full line beyond bags: specimen containers, latex, vinyl and nitrile gloves, gauze and bandages, and adult incontinence products — including our premium DiRose brand.
Browse medical supplies
Why buying direct matters
Most packaging suppliers are distributors: they buy bags, mark them up, and ship them on. We are the factory. That difference shows up in four practical ways.
- Factory-direct pricing
- You pay for the bag and the shipping — not for a middleman's margin.
- Quality we can answer for
- Material, gauge, and print are controlled by us, so problems get solved at the source rather than passed along a supply chain.
- Custom without the runaround
- Any size, any thickness, printed with your brand. Short-run printing starts at 1,000 bags, and our staff supports you on both the technical and creative side.
- Stock that actually ships
- Millions of bags sit in our warehouse ready to go, with stock orders dispatched within 48 hours.
Tell us what you need packaged.
Whether it is a case of stock bags or a custom run printed with your logo, you will be speaking with the people who make them. Call 718-834-8400 or email [email protected].